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- Анастасия Заворотнюк
- Сергей Шнуров
- Андрей Данилко
- Юрий Шатунов
- Наташа Королева
- Николай Цискаридзе
Умерли в 1973-м
- Пабло Пикассо
- Брюс Ли
- Джон Толкин
- Лидия Русланова
- Семен Буденный
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Artist: Bob Dylan
Album: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid [Soundtrack]
Release Date: Jul 13, 1973
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Label: Columbia
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Reviewby Bruce Eder
This album was unusual on several counts. For starters,
it was a soundtrack (for Sam Peckinpah's movie of the
same title), a first venture of its kind for Bob Dylan.
For another, it was Dylan's first new LP in three years
— he hadn't been heard from in any form other than the
single "George Jackson," his appearance at the
Bangladesh benefit concert in 1971, in all of that time.
Finally, it came out at an odd moment of juxtaposition
in pop culture history, appearing in July 1973 on the
same date as the release of Paul McCartney's own first
prominent venture into film music, on the Live and Let
Die soundtrack (the Beatles bassist had previously
scored The Family Way, a British project overlooked amid
the frenzy of the Beatles' success). Interestingly, each
effort reunited the artist with a significant
musician/collaborator from his respective past:
McCartney with producer George Martin and Dylan with
guitarist Bruce Langhorne, who'd played with him on his
early albums up to Bringing It All Back Home, before
being supplanted by Mike Bloomfield, et al. But that was
where the similarities between the two projects ended —
apart from the title song, Live and Let Die was Martin's
project rather than McCartney's, whereas Dylan was all
over Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as a composer,
musician, etc. Additionally, whereas McCartney's work
was a piece of pure pop-oriented rock in connection with
a crowd-pleasing action-fantasy film, Dylan's work
comprised an entire LP, and the resulting album was a
beautifully simple, sometimes rough-at-the-edges and
sometimes gently refined piece of country- and
folk-influenced rock, devised to underscore a very
serious historical film by one of the movies' great
directorial stylists. It was also as strong as any of
his recent albums, featuring not just Langhorne but also
such luminaries as Booker T. Jones, Roger McGuinn, and
Byron Berline. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" was the
obvious hit off the album, and helped drive the sales,
but "Billy 1," "Billy 4," and "Billy 7" were good songs,
too — had any of them shown up on bootlegs, they'd have
kept the Dylan semiologists and hagiographers busy for
years working over them. The instrumentals surrounding
them were also worth hearing as manifestations of
Dylan's music-making; "Bunkhouse Theme" was downright
gorgeous. It was the first time since New Morning, in
1970, that Dylan had released more than five minutes of
new music at once, and it was a gift to fans as well as
to Peckinpah — little did anyone realize at the time
that it heralded a period of new recording and a
national tour (with the Band), along with a brief label
switch, and Dylan's greatest period of sustained musical
visibility since 1966. This record also proved that
Dylan could shoehorn his music within the requirements
of a movie score without compromising its content or
quality, something that only the Beatles, unique among
rock artists, had really managed to do up to that time,
and that was in their own movie, A Hard Day's Night.
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" may have been the biggest
hit to come out of a Western in at least 21 years, since
Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington had given "High Noon"
to Tex Ritter to sing in Fred Zinnemann's High Noon in
1952 (and Katy Jurado was in both movies), and he'd also
outdone Ritter on two counts, writing the music — a full
score, to boot — and getting a cameo appearance in the
film. The album was later kind of overlooked and
neglected in the wake of the tour that followed and the
imposing musical attributes of, say, Blood on the Tracks
and Desire, but heard on its own terms it holds up
30-plus years later.
© 2007 All Media Guide, LLC.
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